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Slideshow: Verb IT first with HP Performance Optimised Datacentre (POD)

Sydney-based Verb IT is the first company in the Asia Pacific region to provision an HP Performance Optimised Datacentre (POD) next-generation data centre in a shipping container. The new Verb DC site where the POD is located is a standard industrial warehouse in Wyong on the NSW Central Coast (one hour north of Sydney). Verb DC is schedueld to go live in September after a 14-week project, including the POD delivery time. In what is being painted as a big win for the Central Coast IT industry, the new POD will provide computing services to local businesses and the world.

By Rodney Gedda | 20 August, 2010 08:57

Tags: data centres, green IT, HP, HP POD, Portable Modular Data Centre (PMDC), Triforce Services, Verb IT

Data centers go underground

As Hurricane Ike bore down on Houston one Friday last September, the Continental Airlines' flight operations center, located on the 14th floor of a glass-sided downtown high rise, suddenly went dark. For the airline's pilots and flight crews, however, business proceeded as usual.

By Robert L. Mitchell | 29 July, 2009 08:20

Tags: data centres

Researchers speed up the chase for cooler data centers

With energy costs rising and data centers at the core of IT strategy for many companies, cooling the growing number of computers jammed into data centers is an issue that has taken center stage.

By Robert Lemos | 11 June, 2009 00:36

Tags: data centre cooling, data centres

Inside Internode's data centre

Computerworld gets an exclusive behind the scenes look inside Internode's Adelaide data centre with network guru Mark Newton

By Kathryn Edwards | 05 June, 2009 14:39

Tags: data centres, internode, servers, data centre top pick

Five tools to prevent energy waste in the data center

These products will make the data center more efficient by reducing power usage of existing hardware

By Jon Brodkin | 23 April, 2009 15:02

Tags: data center power consumption, data centre top pick

Measuring data center efficiency easier said than done

Containing the cost of powering the data center is one of the chief priorities for many IT and facilities professionals. But determining whether a data center is a paragon of green virtue or an unrepentant gas guzzler is trickier than it might seem at first glance.

Data recovery needn't be your dirty little secret

Enterprises don't like to discuss how often backups fail to take place, restorations prove unsuccessful and damaged media ships out for data recovery.

By Jennifer Kavur | 12 March, 2009 09:16

Tags: data recovery, data storage

Elastic IT resources transform data centers

The enterprise data center of the future will be a highly flexible and adaptable organism, responding quickly to changing needs because of technologies like virtualization, a modular building approach, and an operating system that treats distributed resources as a single computing pool.

By Jon Brodkin | 08 December, 2008 09:21

Tags: data centres

Sun, wind, algae: Future data-center power sources?

The potential for wind power in the upper Midwest United States has led some to dub the region the "Saudi Arabia of wind." But tapping that potential isn't easy. In particular, the difficulty of integrating wind power into utility companies' transmission grids is hampering adoption.

By Ann Bednarz | 26 November, 2008 07:37

Tags: data center power consumption, green IT, data centre top pick

Visa leans on virtualization to transform data centers

Visa is looking for a few good people to run its next-generation data centers.

By Jim Duffy | 11 November, 2008 09:01

Tags: data centres, visa

What IT pros like best about next-generation technology

Do hundreds of gallons of used vegetable oil belong anywhere near a data center, let alone inside? Phil Nail thinks so.

By Ann Bednarz | 21 October, 2008 10:00

Tags: datacentre, virtualisation

Data centers in a box

IT takes a close look at shipping container-based data centers

By Jon Brodkin | 15 October, 2008 09:55

Tags: datacentre

Google, Microsoft spark interest in modular data centers

Interest in modular data centers is growing, fueled by high-profile endorsements from Microsoft and Google. But the model raises new management concerns, and efficiency claims may be exaggerated.

By Jon Brodkin | 14 October, 2008 08:51

Tags: data backup, datacentre

Six Steps to a Green Data Center

Environmental issues exposed by the media and driven by consumers have placed IT departments under pressure to develop "green" data centers. Factors including the reduction of energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions in large data centers often provide the impetus for becoming green. A recent report issued by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) highlights the need for data center efficiency and demonstrates the increased pressure that IT departments are under.

By Darryl Wilson | 13 October, 2008 09:31

Tags: data centre, green

20 more IT mistakes to avoid

Back in 2004, InfoWorld's then-CTO Chad Dickerson polled the best and brightest to reveal 20 IT mistakes that were surefire recipes for cost overruns, missed deadlines, and in some cases, lost jobs.

By Neil McAllister | 16 September, 2008 08:33

Tags: applications, authentication, corporate issues, environment, personnel, programming, SaaS

Tech's looming battle against rising energy costs

IT has gotten a bad rap when it comes to energy consumption. Walk into any datacenter, and you can almost feel the carbon emissions leaking into the atmosphere. However, research shows that the datacenter actually accounts for a very small percentage of a company's overall energy usage. And businesses are missing the other significant opportunities where they could cut energy usages -- and costs. Ironically, the same IT department that is reducing energy usage in the datacenter could lead the energy-savings initiatives across the enterprise.

By Betsy Harter | 10 September, 2008 08:59

Tags: data center power consumption, environment, Web telephony and conferencing

A green IT checklist: From first steps to stretch goals

Chief Technology Officer Arvind Thapar wants to bring new green technology to his company, but his proposed initiative -- installing wind turbines to generate power -- is decidedly outside the usual realm of IT.

Katrina whipped Louisiana's top court into shape for Gustav

Gustav had nowhere near the effect on the Louisiana Supreme Court that Katrina did three years ago -- in fact, the network never went down.

Securing virtualized data centers

While server virtualization increases operational efficiencies and management flexibility, and reduces total cost of ownership, it can also increase security risks.

Going virtual raises storage-management issues

If you're an IT executive, chances are you're already thinking about storage virtualization. Nearly one-quarter of companies with at least 500 employees have deployed storage virtualization products already, and another 55 percent plan to do so within two years, a recent Gartner survey found.

By Jon Brodkin | 22 August, 2008 10:22

Tags: storage virtualisation, virtualisation